News

The 2017 Turner Prize shortlist; A.R. Penck dies; Martin Clark appointed new director of Camden Arts Centre

A fresh dispute over the estate of Vivian Maier; Chris Ofili is made a CBE

Barkley L. Hendricks has died; the Tate faces a lawsuit from its neighbours

The Emmett Till painting saga continues; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ‘should be postponed or downsized’ says former director

Trisha Brown has died, aged 80; two new appointments at London’s ICA; controversy at the Whitney

Munich’s Haus der Kunst embroiled in Scientology scandal; Martín Ramírez to inaugurate the new ICA LA

Gustav Metzger has died aged 90; director of the Met resigns

Paul Schimmel splits with Hauser & Wirth; The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s cultural center is handed over to the Greek state

Whitney 2017 artist list announced; Helen Marten wins the inaugural Hepworth Prize for sculpture

Unesco takes no action over Venice while thieves break into Anselm Kiefer’s studio

Angry reaction to the planned closure of Sydney College of the Arts; the Limbach Commission to be reformed

Artists Space to leave 38 Greene Street and Marisol passes away

Elisabeth Murdoch establishes a prize for female artists and Zaha Hadid passes away: the latest news from the art world

A new director for the KW Institute and an art school inspired by Black Mountain College: the latest headlines from the art world

The British Museum tops the UK's most visited attractions, and other art world headlines

Anish Kapoor buys the world's darkest colour and Iggy Pop becomes a life model: a round-up of the latest art news

Venues are announced for the 9th Berlin Biennale and The Artist's Institute prepares to relocate: a digest of the world's art news

David Hockney gets a major retrospective and Umberto Eco passes away: a round-up of the latest art news

Tate announce new curators, Heimo Zobernig and Edgar Arcenaux receive awards and a Palestinian artist is sentenced to death

How artists and photographers in Japan have responded to the disasters of 3 March 2011